Renovating a half-timbered house - low ceiling heights, are there possibilities?

  • Erstellt am 2020-07-24 14:15:01

Tamstar

2020-07-24 14:15:01
  • #1
Hi,

a while ago we looked at a half-timbered house in need of renovation, but since too many circumstances didn’t fit, we didn’t pursue it further. Now a few months have passed, the offers in our area are not increasing, and yesterday the property was listed again... with a lower price. Since in the meantime we often thought about the beautiful outbuildings, one could say now that it’s a sign of fate that the house was listed again and that we should seriously consider it.

The biggest drawback for me was actually the very low ceiling height. It was not even 2 meters. What do you think... can anything be done about that?
We haven’t done any investigations yet, I’m just collecting ideas. If it really gets serious, of course a structural engineer, carpenter, etc. will be involved.

I would look at the floor structure. But since there is a vaulted cellar underneath, there won’t be much to gain there.
Then uncover the beams of the first floor and attic, they are covered up, so you can gain a few cm there as well.
But in total it won’t be more than 10 cm.

Are there solutions without complete demolition? Doubling the frames of the upper floors or something like that?

I’ll call

Oh, by the way... no historic monument protection and no visible half-timbering.

Regards
 

nordanney

2020-07-24 15:30:53
  • #2
Look for a decent house. No wonder nobody wants to buy the "junk property." The only reasonable option is demolition and new construction.
 

Tamstar

2020-07-24 15:38:01
  • #3
Yes, it is clear why no one wants that. In principle, we only want it because of the extensions, but demolition and new construction will probably (without having checked it) not be possible, as no distance to the neighbor can be maintained.
 

Joedreck

2020-07-24 15:40:26
  • #4
Living on one floor and opening the mezzanine?
 

Tamstar

2020-07-24 16:05:14
  • #5
The current residential building has only a very small footprint (blue), the rest are barns and stables. Change of use would have to be clarified in terms of building regulations, then I could imagine opening up the 1st floor of the residential building upward and including parts of the barn.
 

Pinky0301

2020-07-24 16:15:49
  • #6
What do you like about the many/large outbuildings? Are they in good condition? I wanted to suggest that the roof could be raised, but if the other buildings are attached, that probably doesn't make much sense.
 

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